"allowances; the Fees Office paid £7,700 of the claim. The Victoria flat became her second home and her constituency property her main residence. Flint was one of 98 MPs who voted in favour of legislation which would have kept MPs' expense details secret. In an investigation into MPs claims she was ordered by Sir Thomas Legg to repay £572 in over-claimed expenses. Flint employs her husband as her Senior Parliamentary Assistant on a salary up to £40,000. She was listed in articles in the Daily Telegraph and Guardian criticising the practice of MPs employing family members, on the lines that"
"open from 4 January until 11 February 2010. In June 2010 IPSA launched three further consultations, on amendments to the expenses scheme; proposals on publication; and on the compliance officer's processes. Sir Christopher Kelly, the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, published a report on 4 November 2009 looking at MPs' expenses. His report had no formal powers, but provided recommendations to IPSA, and was used to inform the final allowances scheme prepared by IPSA. IPSA published their first expenses scheme on 29 March 2010. It had a largely positive reaction from MPs, the media, and the"
"to investigate all claims relating to the ‘second homes’ allowance between 2004 and 2008. Headed by former civil servant Sir Thomas Legg, the panel published its findings on 12 October as MPs returned to Westminster following the summer recess. Each MP received a letter stating whether or not he or she would be required to repay any expenses claimed. Details of voluntary repayments by MPs amounting to almost £500,000 were also officially published. It was announced on 5 February 2010 that criminal charges of false accounting were to be prosecuted against four parliamentarians, all later jailed. On 19 May charges"
"following the Legg audit of MPs' expenses in 2010. Djanogly voluntarily repaid £25,000 but the repayment was not, he maintained, acknowledgement that his arrangements had been improper, but rather in recognition of his part in Parliament's collective failure to address the expenses system. In September 2010 it was revealed that Djanology had hired private detectives in 2009 to uncover the source of leaks to media about his parliamentary expenses. Following a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner's Office by John Mann MP in connection with Djanogly's hiring of private detectives, on 27 July 2011 the Information Commissioner said that he"
"MLAs in his report, and said that no one had violated the law currently in place, all three parties in the Nova Scotia legislature were blamed for reckless spending, and announced his hope that more attention would be focused on repairing the expenses system rather than on demonizing legislators. In the wake of the Auditor General's report, Speaker Charlie Parker compiled a full list of ""questionable expenses"", which was made public on February 8. On February 9, 2010, the first political casualty of the scandal occurred when Richard Hurlburt, Progressive Conservative MLA for Yarmouth, resigned days after the Auditor General's"
"were brought against two more, on 13 and 14 October 2010 two more faced legal proceedings. Three peers were suspended on 18 October 2010 due to their expenses claims. In the United Kingdom, MPs can claim expenses, including the cost of accommodation, ‘wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred for the performance of a Member’s parliamentary duties’. In January 2005 the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force, allowing members of the public to request disclosure of information from public bodies. One early request came from the journalist Jon Ungoed-Thomas. Another request came from journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather"
"the amount in full by the time of the release of the report on 4 February 2010. Kirkbride was one of 98 MPs who voted in favour of legislation which would have kept MPs' expense details secret. In October 2010, the Parliamentary Commissioner of Standards rejected complaints of her expenses and upheld that she had been within the rules to claim her Bromsgrove property as a second home, to allow her brother to stay to look after her child and to extend her mortgage to provide a further bedroom. On the issue of the second home he wrote: ""I have"
"as ""astounding"", and guidance to ministers in 2005 had stated that such expenses were not claimable for tax purposes. The Economic and Specialist Crime branch of the Metropolitan Police Service have started investigating claims made by a few MPs. Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales announced on 5 February 2010 that three Labour MPs, Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield would face criminal charges of false accounting (s. 17, Theft Act 1968) in relation to their expense claims. He said that the Crown Prosecution Service had concluded that ""there is"
"2010 cash for influence scandal The 2010 cash for influence scandal was a political scandal in the United Kingdom. It was brought to public and widespread media attention by a March 2010 documentary by Dispatches in which a journalistic sting operation recorded and revealed Members of Parliament and the Lords offering to work for a fictitious political lobbying firm for fees of £3,000 to £5,000 per day. Twenty politicians were approached by the documentary: fifteen agreed to meet, ten arranged meetings, and of those ten, nine were secretly filmed. These nine included the Conservative MP, Sir John Butterfill and Labour"
"be entitled to learn details of their MP's expenses. Labour MPs were to be pressured to vote for this measure by use of a three line whip. Her proposal was withdrawn when the Conservative Party said they would vote against, and an online campaign by mySociety. The failure of the motion led to the disclosure of expenses of British members of parliament. In December 2010, it emerged that Harman was amongst 40 MPs who had secretly repaid wrongly claimed expenses between 2008 and 2010. In November 2010, Harman's parliamentary private secretary Ian Lavery had blocked a motion designed to allow"
"2000. The committee was also asked to propose an interim system of expenses and allowances for MPs shortly after the MPs' expenses scandal broke in May 2009. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was created in answer to the expenses scandal, and the Speaker's Committee on IPSA to oversee it. As a result, the committee lay dormant from the May 2011 general election until July 2011. The committee was renamed, with the expectation of new members being appointed, amid marked dissatisfaction with the expenses scheme developed by IPSA. Its task was to report back to the House on the operations"
"leaked to the media. Several newspapers referred to the ""Swish Family Robinson"" after Peter Robinson, and his wife Iris, claimed £571,939.41 in expenses with a further £150,000 being paid to family members. Further embarrassment was caused to the party when its deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, had the highest expenses claims of any Northern Ireland MP, ranking 13th highest out of all UK MPs. Details of all MPs' expenses claims since 2004 were published in July 2009 under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In January 2010, Peter Robinson was at the centre of a high-profile scandal relating to his 60-year-old"
"R v Chaytor R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52 was a 2010 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The case concerned the trials of three former Members of Parliament for false accounting in relation to the Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009. During their trials, the three MPs (David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine) had each separately argued unsuccessfully that there was no case to answer as expenses claims were covered by the doctrine of Parliamentary privilege and could not be the basis of criminal charges. They appealed (along with Lord Hanningfield) to the Court"
"of Appeal (Criminal Division). R v Chaytor R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52 was a 2010 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The case concerned the trials of three former Members of Parliament for false accounting in relation to the Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009. During their trials, the three MPs (David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine) had each separately argued unsuccessfully that there was no case to answer as expenses claims were covered by the doctrine of Parliamentary privilege and could not be the basis of criminal charges. They appealed (along with Lord"
"MP in the 2010 General Election. On 23 October 2005, a reporter for the Sunday Telegraph, Daniel Foggo, published an article accusing Wise of claiming £36,000 a year from the European Parliament in the name of his researcher, Lindsay Jenkins, while only passing on about a sixth of that amount to her. According to now-repealed Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members of the European Parliament, MEPs could claim up to £125,000 per year for assistants' wages, but this money must be paid either directly to the employees or to a third-party agent. The rules did not"
"each case was referred back to the Crown Court. Chaytor and Morley pleaded guilty to dishonesty offences and Devine was found guilty at trial. Each received sentences of between 16 and 18 months imprisonment in relation to their expenses claims. In February 2010 in the wake of the Parliamentary expenses scandal, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions announced an intention to charge three Labour MPs – David Chaytor, MP for Bury North, Elliot Morley, MP for Scunthorpe and Jim Devine, MP for Livingston as well as Conservative Party peer Lord Hanningfield with false accounting contrary to section 17 Theft"
"after the 2009 European Elections in early June 2009. In May 2009, ""The Daily Telegraph"" obtained unedited details of all MPs' expenses, including address details which showed the practice of ""flipping"", that is, changing the registered main address for various tax and expense purposes. The disclosures led to several MP's resignations and a national scandal. On 23 February 2010 BBC Four showed a dramatised account about Heather Brooke's campaign for disclosure of MPs' expenses, titled ""On Expenses"". The role of Heather Brooke was played by Anna Maxwell Martin. Brooke still serves as a visiting professor in the journalism department of"
"of the new parliament. The newspaper reported that she had claimed around £10,000 for an annual report in 2007 on her performance as an MP, but that her former Commons researcher had never seen the report or worked on it. Dorries insisted that she had indeed published the report, placing a photograph of it on her blog. She subsequently told the ""Biggleswade Advertiser"" that the report was never printed and a credit note issued with refund on 13 September 2008. On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the ""Daily Mirror"" that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses. Three"
"country. Liddell-Grainger claimed a total of £166,109 in expenses, including for office, staffing and travelling costs, during 2007–8. In December 2009, he faced criticism for claiming expenses for a cleaner for his second home in London and for claiming £375-a-month on expenses for food. He responded that the figures were reasonable and proportionate. Later that month it was revealed that he had been asked to pay back £3,200 of expenses payments he had claimed incorrectly. Under revised regulations, during 2010-11 he claimed the reduced sum of £147,004 for expenses, the sixth highest of all MPs in that year. Liddell-Grainger has"
"placed strict conditions and limits on funding MPs' travel to Europe, MacShane was clearly aware of these rules, and concluded ""Mr MacShane claimed in the way he did to ensure that his use of public funds for his European travel was not challenged"" by sending misleading invoices to himself in order to claim the costs of travelling and to entertain European contacts. It was reported on 14 October 2010 that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (on instruction from the Standards and Privileges Committee) had referred an expenses-related complaint about MacShane from the British National Party to the Metropolitan Police. The"
"expenses back. Gordon Brown said that MPs should ""deal with"" the retroactive rules, while David Cameron warned that any member of the Conservative Party who was unwilling to comply with the rules would not be able to stand for the party at the next general election. At the 2010 British Press Awards, ""The Daily Telegraph"" was named the ""National Newspaper of the Year"" for its coverage of the MPs expenses scandal, which was also referred to as the ""Scoop of the Year"". William Lewis won ""Journalist of the Year"" for his reporting role as well. United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal"
"downfall and distrust of MPs. John Lewis List The John Lewis List was the name given to the list of expenses that Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom could claim before 2010, after which the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was set up to administer MPs' business expenses. The list was so called because it was based on the prices of items from the John Lewis store — because it was highly rated by ""Which?"" magazine. The John Lewis list was used by House of Commons officials to determine whether an expense claim item submitted by an MP"
"scandal. ""The Echo"" revealed that Reed had claimed £991 for home entertainment equipment. Reed told the paper, """"Is it necessary? Probably not, but at the time it is what I had... In hindsight, would I do it in today's climate? No."""" The ""Legg Report"" showed that 343 MPs had been asked to repay some money, including several from Leicestershire. In Reed's case it was because of an accounting error by the Fees office and the amount was outstanding at publication on 4 February 2010. Reed told the ""Leicester Mercury"": ""The Fees Office made a mistake in the past and paid"
"response to Opposition proposals to reform the tax. He went on to urge the government to carry out a fundamental rethinking of tax policy. As part of a series of reports highlighting MPs' expenses claims, on 10 May 2009, ""The Sunday Telegraph"" reported that Byers had claimed more than in second home allowances for a London flat owned by his partner, where the MP lived rent-free. Allegedly included in his expenses claims was £27,000 for redecoration, maintenance, and appliances for the property. In March 2010, Byers was among the politicians caught out by undercover journalists who were posing as lobbyists"
"to terms of imprisonment. A February 2008 Freedom of Information Act request for the release of details of MPs' expenses claims was allowed by an Information Tribunal but challenged by The House of Commons Authorities on the grounds that it was ‘unlawfully intrusive’. In May 2008 the High Court (England and Wales) ruled in favour of releasing the information. In April 2009 the House of Commons authorities announced that publication of expenses, with certain information deemed ‘sensitive’ removed, would be made in July 2009. But before this could take place the expenses records and documentation were leaked to ""The Daily"
"one occasion – meaning that he avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of two properties. He also claimed just under £1,000 to hire an accountant to fill in his tax returns. Bercow denied any wrongdoing, but agreed to pay £6,508 to cover any tax that he may have had to pay to HM Revenue and Customs. It was revealed in 2014 that the House of Commons authorities had destroyed all evidence of MPs' expenses claims prior to 2010. Bercow faced accusations that he had presided over what had been dubbed a ""fresh cover-up"" of the expenses scandal. In"
"asked to apologise to the House of Commons and repay £13,837, which he did. In an article headlined ""Tony McNulty, Benefit Cheat"", Alex Massie in a blog for ""The Spectator"" contrasted the statements made by McNulty regarding benefit cheats with his own claims for expenses. On 18 May 2007, McNulty was one of the 98 MPs who voted in favour of exempting parliamentarians from the application of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. On 5 June 2009, after the revelations in the expenses scandal, McNulty resigned from the government. At the 2010 general election, McNulty lost to Bob Blackman of"
"controversies relating to his expenses. He was one of 32 MPs who claimed the maximum allowance of £4,800 a year for food in 2010 and came under investigation in 2014 for expenses claims relating to the upkeep of his second home. In 2016 he was reported to be one of 26 MPs who had expenses debts of up to £500 written off after failing to pay them by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and in 2016 was criticised for using the government's help-to-buy scheme, which was meant to help young first time buyers, to buy himself a new constituency home."
"Speaker of the House of Commons. On Expenses On Expenses is a 2010 British television film directed by Simon Cellan Jones and starring Anna Maxwell Martin as Heather Brooke and Brian Cox as Michael Martin. The film documents the true story of American journalist Heather Brooke's attempt to get expenses claims of Members of Parliament released under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Speaker Michael Martin's battle to prevent it. Heather Brooke herself appeared in the production in a non-speaking role playing the part of an unnamed MP sitting on the government benches in a scene where Michael Martin"
"House speech (January 2017). The 62 signatories, all Tory Party backbencher MPs, including a former party leader, cabinet ministers and deputy Speaker, were: The ERG published a document explaining ""The Case against Chequers and the Draft Withdrawal Agreement in plain English."" The ERG has drawn criticism for its lack of transparency regarding its use of public funds to carry out research. After a report by openDemocracy found that more than a quarter of a million pounds had been claimed through MPs' official expenses since 2010, a call was made by Labour MPs for an inquiry to be carried out by"
"in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements In February 2015 she announced that she would be standing down at general election in May, citing ill health. In December 2010 it was revealed that Riordan had secretly repaid £105.86 in wrongly claimed expenses. The repayment came about after Riordan had used House of Commons stationery for party political purposes. Riordan apologised, blaming volunteers for the incident. In October 2012, the Commons Speaker John Bercow blocked the release of data showing which MPs were"
"High Court ruling, and the details were made public on 23 May 2008. In January 2009, the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, tabled a motion to exempt MPs' expenses from being disclosed under a Freedom of Information request. Labour MPs were placed under a three line whip to force the motion through the Commons. However, opposition parties stated they would vote against the proposals, and large scale public opposition emerged. The proposals were ultimately dropped on 21 January 2009. The Commons authorities announced that full disclosure of all MPs' expenses would be published on 1 July 2009,"
"A preliminary hearing for Zinck had been postponed several times and a trial date has been set for June 10, 2013. Note:The table below counts the total amount claimed by the MLA in expenses. However, not all of these claims are for illegitimate purposes. Nova Scotia parliamentary expenses scandal The Nova Scotia Parliamentary Expenses Scandal is a political scandal in the province of Nova Scotia that was revealed in 2010. Part-way through the first session of the 61st General Assembly, the NDP, under Premier Darrell Dexter, announced that it would ""eliminate an MLA severance payment as well as their ability"